re: Is Duke and Coach K the great untouchable in NCAA investigations?

There has been some shady stuff in the past. People always go with Maggette but that is a bad example. The Vivian Harper/Chris Duhon situation is a much better one but Coach K was enough steps removed to claim plausible deniability.

Tbh, I think the biggest reason that the team hasn't gotten in trouble is from the demographic they recruit. When you have damn near half of your guys be the sons of former NBA players/coaches/execs or former college players who got good jobs in college and sent their kids to private school, then there is no need to offer money to players.

Off the top of my head, Bobby Hurley, Danny Ferry, Gerald Henderson, Chris Collins, Gary Trent Jr, Mike Dunleavy Jr, Jeff Capel, Justise Winslow, Tre Jones, Tyus Jones, Grant Hill, Kyrie Irving, Dahntay Jones, Lee Melchionni, Shavlik Randolph, Kyle Sinlger, Nolan Smith, and Jayson Tatum all fit that description and I'm definitely missing plenty of people.

And then there are your stereotypical white private school kids (Ryan Kelly, the Plumlees, Jay Bilas, Mark Alarie, Brian Zoubek, etc) but those aren't as numerous as people think.